Until they perfect spinal stem cell regeneration, all assaults leading to quadriplegia should be prosecuted as murder. This woman's life is effectively over. I would absolutely find a way to kill myself if I were ever paralyzed. Law be damned.

TuteTibiImperes:Benevolent Misanthrope: Wow. Wet Willie's in leafy Buckhead. Huh. For those who don't know, Wet Willie's is a chain where they make highly alcoholic frozen cocktails in a bank of slushie machines. Most have a variety of 24 or so. Totally classy place.

I'm not sure why I do. Bear with me. The sound of flirtation by itself is enough to boil my bile, but it is not evil. I do think it's a weak-ass approach at expressing one desires and in this case a step or two lower than throwing rocks at the woman you're attracted to. It is usually based on teasing, which is a hamfisted and witless attempt at sarcasm at the most and highly annoying at the least.

This kind of teasing is the core of the problem. Couple it with a disrespect for personal space, one inching towards the boundaries of sexual assault and you got the handsy asshole at the bar. Women seem to rarely rebuff this behavior sans smile. There's a misfortune of hers he's taking advantage of that states her obstinance will finger her a drama queen or even a run of the mill stone cold b*tch. This is how the world works. It's in the handbook. The memo. What's not in there, however is getting snapped in two by some amateur chiropractor while surrounded by your friends in a public place. This woman's entire life has been turned into a Raggedy Ann doll by some simpleton who never got the tar beat out of him for snapping brawstraps in the hallways.

I sincerely hope they find this man, her friends, her worst friends, the ones who live on the wrong side of the tracks, I hope they find him. Not the friends who would drive her to the airport, but the kind of friends who relish in the idea of a brutal loyalty. The ones who put their friends of pedestals and use them as trophies to pawn in when they need an excuse to express the only caring they know how. I hope they rip this dude limb from limb and he spends the rest of his days piloting a roomba and shiatting into a bag.